One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
COLIN POWELLOne important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
More Colin Powell Quotes
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You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
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Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
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Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
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Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
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What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
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Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
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You can’t get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.
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We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn’t prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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